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Up·land

(ŭp′lənd)

A city of southern California east of Los Angeles at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains.

up·land

(ŭp′lənd, -lănd′)

1. Land or an area of land of high elevation, especially when level.

2. Land in the interior of a country.

adj.

Of, relating to, or located in an upland.

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upland

(ˈʌplənd)

(Physical Geography) (often plural) an area of high or relatively high ground

adj

(Physical Geography) relating to or situated in an upland

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up•land

(ˈʌp lənd, -ˌlænd)

n.

1. land elevated above other land.

2. the higher ground of a region or district; an elevated region.

3. land above the level where water flows or where flooding occurs.

adj.

4. of or pertaining to uplands or elevated regions.

[1560–70]

Up•land

(ˈʌp lənd)

n.

a city in SW California, E of Los Angeles. 63,374.

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Noun	1.	upland - elevated (e.g., mountainous) land highland down - (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil natural elevation, elevation - a raised or elevated geological formation plateau, tableland - a relatively flat highland
Adj.	1.	upland - used of high or hilly country highland lowland - of relatively low or level country

Translations

ylänkö

montano

upland

[ˈʌplənd]

A. N → tierra f alta, meseta f uplands → tierras fpl altas

B. ADJ → de la meseta

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upland

n (usu pl) → Hochland nt no pl

adj → Hochland-; upland area → Hochlandgebiet nt

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It had come--appearing suddenly from behind the forehead of the nearest upland, and stopping beside the boy with the barrow.

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To Alleyne whose days had been spent in the low-lying coastland, the eager upland air and the wide free country-side gave a sense of life and of the joy of living which made his young blood tingle in his veins.

The woods about this point fall away to the left and the right, while the road curves upwards and the wind sweeps keenly over the swelling uplands. The broad strips of bracken glowed red and yellow against the black peaty soil, and a queenly doe who grazed among them turned her white front and her great questioning eyes towards the wayfarers.

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He is refreshing himself, in the midst of dusty, sophisticated Paris, with memories of their old, delightful existence--vagabonde, libre, agreste, pastorale--in their upland valley.

In this book it is rather the cheerful aspect of summer, those upland valleys of the Cevennes presenting then a symphony in red, so to call it--as in a land of cherries and goldfinches; and he has a genial power certainly of making you really feel the sun on the backs of the two boys out early for a long ramble, of old peasants resting themselves a little, with spare enjoyment, ere the end:--

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Thus, we can hardly believe that the webbed feet of the upland goose or of the frigate-bird are of special use to these birds; we cannot believe that the same bones in the arm of the monkey, in the fore leg of the horse, in the wing of the bat, and in the flipper of the seal, are of special use to these animals.

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The country was hilly, with occasional fir plantations and bleak upland spaces, but also with numerous farms, and the hills were deeply intersected by the gorges of several winding rivers interrupted at intervals by the banked-up ponds and weirs of electric generating wheels.

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The wagon-road became a wood-road, the wood-road became a cow-path, and the cow-path dwindled away and ceased among the upland pastures.

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I planted about two acres and a half of upland; and as it was only about fifteen years since the land was cleared, and I myself had got out two or three cords of stumps, I did not give it any manure; but in the course of the summer it appeared by the arrowheads which I turned up in hoeing, that an extinct nation had anciently dwelt here and planted corn and beans ere white men came to clear the land, and so, to some extent, had exhausted the soil for this very crop.

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Some two hundred feet below, a brawling upland stream stood for the moat, and for the enemy there was on the opposite side of the valley a great green company of trees, settled like a cloud slope upon slope, making all haste to cross the river and ascend the heights where I stood.

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When they came out of the woods, all his attention was engrossed by the view of the fallow land on the upland, in parts yellow with grass, in parts trampled and checkered with furrows, in parts dotted with ridges of dung, and in parts even ploughed.

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The new country lay open before me: there were no fences in those days, and I could choose my own way over the grass uplands, trusting the pony to get me home again.